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Sometimes you need to move repositories from your local git server to github.com, bitbucket.org or vice versa. the situation where you want to archive the whole "bare" repo, not just a clone with the master or a single branch. Backup can be done simply by adding --bare to the clone command git clone --bare git @github .com:modsaid/test-repo.git This will result in a cloned repo on the filesystem that is similar in structure to a bare repository Restoring can be done by creating an empty repository on your git server (github.com or bitbucket.org). and running cd test-repo.git git push --mirror git @bitbucket .org:modsaid/test-repo.git voila

It is straight forward to migrate your old SVN code to git. I highly advice everyone to do that even if they're not going to publish it on github or actually use it. but backing up a git repo can get to be very handy. Thanks to  Kevin Menard  for his   svn2git , the migration can be very straight forward.  I have created a usage repo,  using-svn2git , to speed things by adding it to Gemfile and using a specific rvm gemset, assuming you are using rvm. to make it as simple as: git clone bundle install start the migration... Of course having the standard SVN repo structure will save you a lot. You will probably only have to maintain the proper author.txt mapping file between svn and git users (example of the file is in the repo). I have tried to keep the  readme  short and to the point. I hope you find it useful. Regards